<p>Hmmm, personally, I didn’t apply to Stanford, so that wasn’t a huge issue. 
One other school I applied to had SCEA, but 2 others had regular EA. I applied to all the EA’s I could, and I planned to apply to the SCEA as RD instead (didn’t end up doing that after hearing from MIT though!). So, I guess for me, I wanted to get as many apps out of the way early as I could. But if applying to Stanford SCEA gives you an advantage (I don’t have any information on this), then definitely consider that.</p>